Duct
[dʌkt]
Definition
(noun.) an enclosed conduit for a fluid.
(noun.) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; 'the tear duct was obstructed'; 'the alimentary canal'; 'poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs'.
(noun.) a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls.
Editor: Lou--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
(n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
(n.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.
(n.) Guidance; direction.
Edited by Josie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Conduit, channel, canal.
Typed by Alphonse
Definition
n. a tube conveying fluids in animal bodies or plants.
Editor: Ozzie
Examples
- For example, cold air constantly entering at _E_ drives the air heated by _S_ through pipes and ducts to the rooms to be heated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If you don't, I shall feel queer myself about the lachrymal ducts, and I don't like that. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The ducts which receive the heated air from the pipes are built in the non-conducting walls of the house, and hence lose practically no heat. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the winter, warm washed air is forced through long ducts in the floor up into the room. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Rufus